May 28, 2012- Third-year English student Melinda West jams on the accordion live in the studio. She performs the theme song to the Pixar animated film “Up” and Nat King Cole’s ballad, “Love.” Last week, West performed with the Balkan Music Ensemble through the UCLA ethnomusicology department. She also regularly performs with Fusion Music Group, a network of student musicians that perform all types of music, from jazz to reggae, rock, soul and funk. West is currently scoring a piano-accordion ragtime piece for an undergraduate student’s silent film project.
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